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Site d'origine du message: UneParJour - des photographes au quotidien Page d'origine du message: Destinataire: rédaction uneparjour et auteur de l'image Concerne la photographie: upj_jorrittimmermans31 
CorwimIn 1984 he closed his bicycle shop which his family had run for generations in a small town near Amsterdam. He was done with it. More than a bicycle repairman he was more of an artist. Being first in bringing the most beautiful frames from Italy to the serious minded Dutch market. After closing shop he began restoring vintage Italian mopeds. And expanding his collection of records and paraphernalia from the fifties. Like Vargas' pinups and dinky toys for example. "I have to show you this", he said, while he took me to a glass display closet. It was filled with what looked like stones. But turned out to be tools dating back thousands of years. His eyes shimmered when he held a hammer-like rock which, he said, was used by a person 50.000 years earlier. Each year he would travel to France to plough through a farmer's field morning to evening for every day searching for more rocky tools. Without the farmer's consent he had to operate on the sly. |
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